Improvement in halter-buckles and rings



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tint-ted games fitment Elmira LLEWELLYN E. JONEs AND THEODORE M. BARBER,OE SYRACUSE, NEW

, YORK.

Letters Patent No. 112,048, dated February 21, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT lN HALTER-BUCKLES AND RINGS.

, The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and part of the same.

new Improvements in Halter-trimmings for Harness- Makers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

He'retofore the trimmings of halters have been so made as to require aconsiderable amount of workto attach them to the leather straps thatcompose the halter, which is done by sewing the straps thereto.

By our invention-we so construct the trimmings as to be able to attachall the parts together by the trim inings themselves by means of thebuckles forming a part of the said trimmings, as hereinafter described.

1 The followingis a description of the construction and application ofour improvement:

The crown trimming, shown at Figure 1 in the drawing, which forms a partof this description, consists of a metal casting (or it can be ofwronghtmetal) forming three, moreor less, buckles, attached at theirbases atpropcr angles to each other, as clearly represented in fig.1.These buckles connect the crown-strap with the throat-band and sidebands of the halter by simply buckling the straps into the crowntrimmings, as shown by the dotted lines in the drawing, representingthestraps composing a halter.

, Thetrinnnings for the nose-band and chin-strap are seen at Figure 2,and are constructed similar to the crown trimmings, fig. 1, the.tlifiierence being simply fthc change in relative POSiiZiOl lof thebuckles to each other, as seen at fig. 2. It will be noticed that allthe buckles are Ofordinary construction, and attached at their bases toa common center at the proper angles for the purposes intended.

The choke-ring, Figure 3, is simply a buckle .attached to a ring atright angles, or it may be attached by a swivel, as seen at Figure 4,this requiring a buckle-tongue bar, a, in addition to the attaching barI) in the buckle-frame.

The feature of this in rention is that the halter is put together wholly or nearly so by buckles, made in clusters and applied as shown. Bythis construct-ion the proportions of the halter can be altered to fitbetter or to suit different animals by taking up orletting out a strapby the buckles.

A strap can also be taken out and replaced at r by time by a new onewithout stitching or riveting;

The halter is composed almost entirely of short straps put together withvery little if any stitching or riveting.

What we claim as of. our invention in the abovedescribed haltertrimmings is- A halter put together by buckles, madein clusters andapplied as shown, so that the parts can be taken up or lengthened out orreadily detached at any time with very little if any stitching orriveting, substantially as specified.

LLEWELLYN E. JONES. THEODORE M. BARBER.

Witnesses: 1

J. J. GREENOUGH, BORAGE H. WALPOL

